Check out the Comments section of the Times of India story. A lot of readers support Israel and see Islam as the problem.
That is another big change from the past - the Indian Government, and a lot of Indian public opinion supports Israel.
India has one of the world’s largest navies, and is not that far from the Persian Gulf or Red Sea - with huge markets, resources and potential for technological cooperation.
The new Prime Minister of India (Narendra Modi, who came to power in May), is the most pro-Israeli ever. Perhaps no other country has suffered more from Islamic aggression than India has over its history, so fighting Islamic terrorists resonates there (they have soldiers with assault rifles guarding the metro train stations in New Delhi because of Pakistani terror attacks).
Israeli/Indian relations seem poised to take off in the future. In the past, they were vocal critics of Israel as a leader of the “non-aligned” movement and pandering to domestic Muslim communities, but now there is no political pressure from India either - even some moral support.